The National tribune., 1887-02-17

airy, and his battery The writer was wounded
and captured in the fight. and he would be glad
to hear from any member Of Battery Z, LIST
Tenn. L. A., who knows the circumstances.
Fort Harrison.
Sewell Pettingil, Co. f, 18th Me-, Wayne,
| Ne, says that nc read with great interest the
article by Comrade MOrey, 9Sth N. Y, on the
| fight at Chapin's Farm and the capture of Fort
Harrison. On the morning of Sept %, 1864,
| the IIth Ne. engaged the enemy at Spring Hill,
driving them from that point. He remembers
/ the capture of Gen. Walker, and after the nu-
merous claims that have been made he feels
that IL would be a blessed satisfaction to know
who did capture him. he does not know who
carried the wounded officer to the rear, but
| he does know that he did not do it. He would
| be glad TO hear, through THE NATIONAL TRIB-
| UNE, from any members Of the Tooth y. u,
! 9th Mass, or 10th Conn.
/ J. F. Hasted, First Lieutenant and Quarter
| master, 5Sth Pa, New Albany, Pa, says that
every man who was engaged in the assault of
Fort Harrison has reason to be proud of the
fact. whether he was first or last TO enter the
fort. He denies, however. that the Sth Conn.
is entitled to the honor of first planting its flag
on the works. He says the flags of the Sth
Conn. and Goth y. Y. were placed there stimuli
| taneously, but that the Gag of the 1SSth Pa.
was there before either of them. 1t was put
there by Capt. Cecil Clay and Billy Burke, of
| Co. b, 5Sth Pa.
Frank E. Town, Glenville, Mimi, thinks
Comrade Jewett, sth Conn, shoots wide of the
mark in his account of the taking of Fort Har-
rison. He says il was the IlSth n. Y, and not
/ the seth ~ ", that was on the skirmish-line
with the 10th n. II. on its right. He saw Gen.
! Burnham when he fell and was borne from the
field. He would be glad to hear from Capt. G.
F. Campbell, 11Sth n. Y.
w. A. Wescott, Johnshurg, n. Y, corrects
Comrade Randlct in regard to the fight at
Chapin's Farm. He says there were no YER
mont regiments in the Brigade, which was CON-
posed of the slst, 96th, 9sth and 11Sth n. Y.
lie belonged to the Goth, and was wounded in
front OF the fort.
Perryvllle.
F.A. Cody, Co. d, 1O5th Ohio, Madison. o.,
was in TeTrell's Brigade at Perryville, COM
posed Of the 1Ojth Ohio, 1O1st Ind, S0th and
l23d I'll. IL was the first battle of the 105th,
and the regiment suffered severely. Gen. Ter
| rell was killed.
Samuel ID. Watson, Co. G, 10th Ind, Gold
| smith, Ind says that the night of the battle
of Perryville his regiment, which belonged TO
the Third Brigade. Third Division, Fourteenth
Corps, was on picket and the following morn
ing was on the skirmish-line. The regiment
| volunteered TO charge battery, and did so
most calamity, capturing the guns and putting
to rout three times its number.
]. ID. Maurer, Co. b, 9th Ohio Torrance,
Kan, says that his regiment has been almost
wholly ignored by the comrades who have
written of the battle of PeTryville. The 9th
reached the field at the hardest push of the
battle, was double-quicked into the fight to fill
gap in the lines, and was formed on the right
of the 10Th Pa Ii was the first battle for the
9th. but its members acquitted themselves so
well that from that time none Of the old vet
Grams asked them if " their mothers knew they
were out"
William w. Day, Co. d, 10th Wis, Owatonna,
Mimi, says his regiment belonged TO the old
brigade commanded by Gen. Len. Harris, I'd
Ohio and gives an account of its participation
in the fight at Perryyille. Referring TO a state
ment by a comrade that all our dead and
wounded fell into the enemy's hands, he says
il is true the enemy captured a portion Of the
field, but the hospital in rear of Harris's and
Lytle's Brigades was not at any time in the
enemy's hands. aud Bragg's forces were in full
retreat long before daylight of Oct. g. He says
Gen. McCook was criticized for bringing on this
fight but he was compelled either to fight OF
retreat, and the latter he was not in the habit
of doing unless compelled TO.
William III. Ray, Co. c. S0th Ind, Marquette
Neb, writes briefly of the battle of Perryville,
not entirely agreeing with the statement OF
Gen. Starkweather. lie says the S0th Ind. was
TO the left of Gen. Starkweather's Brigade, sup
porting the 18th Ind. battery, and some Of Its
men helped TO work the guns. The sOth wa:
in Terrelfs Brigade. Jacksons Division. II
did gallant service there, and he thinks il
justly entitled 10 a share of the glory that is
going around. He says the s0th was warmly
complimented by Gen. Rousseau for its gal
lantry at Perryville.
w. II. Young. Co d, 10th Ind. referring t.
the recently-printed article on Wagner's Bri
gade at Perryville, says he doesn't blame Gen
Wagner for swearing so on that occasion, fol
they had marched all the day before and the
greater part of the night and were then lying
near where the battle was being fought They
lay there idly watching the conflict, eager and
anxious 10 go TO the assistance of their hard
pressed comrades, but were not permitted to do
So Late in the day Gen. Wagner formed hi
brigade in line OF battle, deployed two com
panies of the 10th Ind. as skirmishers anC
called for his battery, the 10th Ind, but it was
not to be found. II was there that he did hi
most artistic swearing The battery was re
} ported stuck in the woods in the rear. and the
General went back and soon had the gum
} at the front playing upon the enemy. The
writer, like thousands of other soldiers of thu
Army Of the Cumberland, could never under
stand why more than half of Buells troops lay
within two miles of the fight at PerryvillC
without participating in it.
L. L. Gould, Co. X, 74th H., GOldfeld, Iowa
! says that at the battle Of Perryville he ant
another soldier saw under tree the bodies o
four rebel soldiers, all of whom had been killet
by she'll while they were playing game o
cards. The cards were still grasped in theil
hands, and the deck head " lay between them
He would like TO hear from the man who wa
with him at the time.
Fort Malone.
Chas. A. Serviss ls6th n. Y, Poland, y. Y
says that il would appear from some of the com
: munications in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE tina
we, Second Brigade. Second Division of tn
Ninth Corps, must take back seat so far a
: the charge on Fort Malone is concerned. Thi
view Of the case he says is entirely wrong, as th
brigade took an active part in that charge, ant
Gen. Griffin, its commander, was the first mai
to go over the works.
! Adam HORNE, Co. III, 10th Ohio, Cas-
: tine, o., says that numerous and conflicting
accounts of the capture of Fort Malone hay
left him much in the dark in regard to tn
> matter, unless there were two forts of tina
name. His regiment belonged to the Secon
Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps, and h
!. | always supposed that he had hand in tn
: game He says the Sixth Corps went over tn
: | rebel works like whirlwind on the mornn
I | of April . 1861 Then it wheeled and strucl
: a fort which was called Fort Malone. TIL
: assault by regiments Of the Twenty -fourt
= Corps was led by the 9th Nd, whose command
ing officer was mortally wounded. His brother
h an artillery officer, was also killed. The Con
federate Gen. A. =. Hill, according to Grant
official report, was killed at this time.
/ ChIckamauga.
S j. y. Stanford, Co. A, I'd battalion, u. S. Inf
a | RalleSbnrp Tenn savs the hattie of Chicks